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Eun-Young Lee, PhD. Team Lead

Dr. Eun-Young Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Industry Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Lee is also an Adjunct Professor in Kinesiology and Health and Gender Studies at Queen’s University and Affiliated Investigator with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. As the lead of the In Situ Population Health Research Group, now based at Yonsei University, Dr. Lee’s research seeks to address pressing environmental and social challenges—including climate change, structural inequities, and gender-related issues—by bridging social theory (e.g., intersectionality) with quantitative and population-level methods to advance health equity and planetary health.

Research

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Service and Leadership

Training

  • 2017–2018, Post-Doctorate, Epidemiology & Population Health, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada (Supervisor: Dr. Mark S. Tremblay)

  • 2015–2017, Post-Doctorate, Behavioural Epidemiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Supervisor: Dr. Valerie Carson)

  • 2008–2015, PhD, Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Supervisor: Dr. John C. Spence)

  • 2007–2008, Course-based Graduate Studentship, Exercise Epidemiology, Waseda University, Japan (Supervisor: Dr. Ichiro Kawachi)

  • 2004–2006, MA, Sport Psychology, Yonsei University, South Korea (Supervisor: Dr. Yongjin Yoon)

  • 2000–2004, BSc, Sport and Leisure Studies & Physical Education, Yonsei University, South Korea